Sustainability
Despite heavy spring rains, crop residue will remain in place thanks to the healthy soil structure. However, unhealthy soil will give way to washing and erosion.
The pollinator project is an initiative in functional biodiversity—the idea that best management practices can support commercial agricultural practices and the environment at the same time.
Cattle grazing and clean water can coexist on national forest lands, according to research by the University of California (UC), Davis.
Recent data reveals that Earth’s groundwater supplies may be under some serious strain.
“Why do you insist on bashing organic farmers?”
Sanjaya Rajaram’s 480 wheat varieties have been released in 51 countries on six continents and planted on more than 140 million acres.
EQIP funds can provide cost share funds for conservation practices such as a water trough system in pastures to allow additional cross fencing and sensitive wetland protection.
Spies in the furrows. Rat smells a cig. Golden banana agoniste. Water salvation from a slingshot. Cattle rustlers and AK-47s. A pig’s life. Turning milk into beer.
General Mills launches “global innovation challenge” to reduce greenhouse gas - $100,000 in assistance is available.
Wednesday, Oct. 16 is World Food Day. Here are ways you can participate, including a unique opportunity to thank farmers.
For example, 41% of people say sustainability has an impact on their food-and-beverage-buying habits, up 6 percentage points from a year earlier, according to an online survey conducted by the International Food Information Council Foundation.
There was a time when once grain left the farm gate, little was thought about where it went. Those days are disappearing quickly.
Ever since the late 1940s, agricultural output has grown slowly but steadily at an average annual rate of about 1.5%, while input usage has only increased by about 0.05% per year during the same time period. Mapped out over seven decades, those changes have really added up.
An American farming story: When Mike Wagner spliced a vertical business approach with ultra-conservation, he created one of the most unique agriculture operations in the United States.
Field to Market recently announced it is now able to integrate sustainability metrics and algorithms of its Fieldprint Platform with several leading precision ag and farm management software programs. This represents one of several moves the group hopes will help meet its ambitious goal of 50 million participating acres by 2020.
The Texas Farms and Ranch Lands Conservation Program, created by the legislature in 2005, was meant to play a vital role in protecting agricultural lands, which are disappearing as a result of the recent population boom. A 2014 Texas A&M study found that the state was losing farm and ranch land at a faster rate than anywhere else in the country.
A two-year study by researchers with the SureHarvest technology platform pegs the CO2 equivalent emissions of 1 lb. of mushrooms at just 0.7 lb. – far below many other crops.
On March 30, acting deputy agriculture secretary Michael Young announced that a contract renewal signup for the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) is actively underway. Applications to renew expiring contracts are due May 5.
When Paul Betcher’s phone rang last year, he had no idea how a rocky patch of land on his farm would turn into a windfall.
Archer Daniels Midland Company announced the Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) project, a partnership to safely and permanently store more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, has begun.
The company posted double-digit sustainable sourcing gains for both U.S. dairy and wheat.
A budget bill that would eliminate a longtime research center at Iowa State University is headed to Gov. Terry Branstad.
At great cost, phosphorus is laboriously mined and processed so it can be used by the agriculture industry. Some 27.6 million metric tons were removed from the earth in 2015. But an agtech UW-Madison spinoff has discovered another innovative way to collect this valuable mineral.
Fifty acres of sunflowers bloomed in northwest Barrington Hills, Ill. in one August week to create a unique carpet of bright yellow.
EXCHANGE: Farmer puts future on display in hoop barn
Farmers have tried to operate sustainably for decades, though for much of history they probably wouldn’t have used that terminology.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey believes it’s wrong to think every complex problem has a simple solution, and water quality would be a prime example.
Animal welfare and sustainable farming objectives are outlined in the major food and beverage company’s 2017 Corporate Sustainability Report.
Investigators have linked three large fish kills this month to livestock manure that had been spread on farm fields in northwestern Ohio, and now they’re looking into whether any laws were broken.
Officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture say farmers in Vermont are making better-than-expected progress in reducing the amount of phosphorus flowing into two of four “priority” parts of Lake Champlain.